Monday, 15 May 2017

LADY ARRESTED BY RRS FOR TRYING TO SALE BABY FOR N250,000 IN LAGOS

A 22 year old lady along with six
other suspects have been arrested by the Decoy Team of the Rapid Response Squad
of the Lagos Police Command over the sale of a day old baby for the sum of
N250,000:00.

The lady, Miss Onyinyechi Osoneye,
was arrested on Wednesday by the operatives who were working on intelligence
over the sale of her baby to Mr and Mrs Ike Nwata.

It was gathered that Onyinyechi with
the connivance of her mother, Mrs Joy Osoneye concealed the pregnancy from her
father knowing her father strict position a child out of wedlock.

It was further revealed that the man
who impregnated Onyinyechi had on being informed of the pregnancy declined to
be the one responsible for it.

Source revealed that Onyinyechi was
admitted to Peninsula Hospital, Ikota, Lekki – Ajah Expressway, where Mrs.
Glory Ehinmi, 35 delivered the lady of a baby boy on March 1st, 2017.

The source further disclosed that
Onyinyechi when arrested had declined the fact that she was pregnant and sold
her baby. She was reported to have thereafter burst into tears on further
interrogations.

She disclosed that Mrs Glory Ehinmi
took the baby from her at the point of delivery and gave him to Mrs Prisca
Okocha, 45, her sister and the owner of Peculiar Hospital, Orile, who offered
Onyinyechi’s mother N250,000.

Mrs. Okocha confessed to
investigators that she sold the baby for N850, 000 but gave the mother N250,
000.

It was further learnt that the
buying couples who were desperately in need of a child organised a huge party
to celebrate the baby’s arrival.

Mrs. Nwata was reported to have
stayed away from the residence of his husband while the search a baby lasted.
She added that she was been pretending to be pregnant each and every time she
went to the husband house.

Onyinyechi could not be interviewed
as she wept all through the period of the investigation.

Mrs. Glory Ehinmi on interview
disclosed that what she did Onyinyechi was a favour. She added that the
concealment was enough to suffocate the baby.

She pointed out that she was
enrolled her for antenatal and fed her till she was delivered of the baby.

Efforts to arrest the man who
impregnated Onyinyechi, her mother and father proved abortive as they were
reported to be on the run.

The baby has been handed over to the
Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs while five suspects have been transferred
to Gender Office, State Headquarters, Ikeja for further investigations.